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Ventoy is an open-source tool for creating bootable USB drives for ISO files. With it, you don’t need to format the disk over and over; you just copy the ISO file onto the USB drive and boot from it. You can copy multiple ISO files and select the needed one from the boot menu. Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI modes are supported. […]
Introduction Previously, the topic of automating desktop GUI applications with Python was covered in great detail on Habr. I was very drawn to that article because it revealed elements similar to those involved in creating robots. As part of my professional activities, I work on automating business processes for a company (RPA is a field that lacked fully functional […]
The Python library pywinauto is an open-source project for automating desktop GUI applications on Windows. In the last two years, it has gained significant new features: Support for MS UI Automation technology. The interface remains the same, and now supports: WinForms, WPF, Qt5, Windows Store (UWP), and more — almost everything available on Windows. A system of backends/plugins (currently […]
The developers of the free antivirus package ClamAV have resolved the issue of providing a signature database based on the Safe Browsing collection distributed by Google, which contains information about phishing sites and those distributing malware. Previously, the Safe Browsing-based signature database was provided by ClamAV developers, but in November of last year, its updates were halted due to restrictions imposed by Google. In particular, […]
After ten months of development, the multimedia package FFmpeg 4.3 is available, containing a suite of applications and a collection of libraries for operations with various multimedia formats (recording, converting, and decoding sound and video formats). The package is distributed under LGPL and GPL licenses, and FFmpeg development is conducted in parallel with the MPlayer project. Notable changes added in FFmpeg 4.3 include: Support for the Vulkan graphics API; Based on […]
Once, a regular firewall and antivirus programs were sufficient to protect a local network, but against attacks from modern hackers and the surge of malware lately, this setup is no longer effective. The good old firewall only analyzes packet headers, allowing or blocking them based on a set of formal rules. It knows nothing about the content of the packets, and therefore cannot […]
Good day! Let's continue to explore this topic (the previous part can be found at the link). Today we will move on to the practical part. We'll start by setting up our own certificate authority based on the full-featured open-source cryptographic library openSSL. This algorithm was tested using Windows 7. After installing openSSL, we can perform various cryptographic operations (for example, key generation and […]
The CentOS 2004 distribution has been released, incorporating changes from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2. The distribution is fully binary-compatible with RHEL 8.2, and the changes made to the packages generally involve rebranding and graphic redesign. CentOS 2004 builds are available (7 GB DVD and 550 MB netboot) for x86_64, Aarch64 (ARM64), and ppc64le architectures. The SRPMS packages […]
Linus Torvalds presented the first release candidate of the Linux kernel 5.8, noting that it seems to be the largest in terms of changes of all kernels in the history of the project. The 5.8 branch has accepted 14,206 sets of changes, affecting approximately 20% of all files in the kernel code repository. The size of the 5.8-rc1 patch was 61 MB, which […]
It has long been known that making backups in SQL dumps (using pg_dump or pg_dumpall) is not the best idea. For backing up PostgreSQL databases, it's better to use the pg_basebackup command, which creates a binary copy of the WAL logs. But when you start exploring the entire process of creating a backup and restoration, you'll realize that you need to create at least a couple of tricycles to manage all of this […]
Starting today, residents of Brazil can make money transfers directly within the WhatsApp application. The company's press release states that this feature is implemented on the Facebook Pay platform. Users can send money from WhatsApp business accounts. This function is primarily designed to facilitate payment acceptance for small businesses. WhatsApp reports that payments are completely secure, and for […]
The cumulative update KB4557957 for Windows 10, released last week, brought users not only fixes and system stability improvements but also problems. A few days ago, it was reported that due to the update, Microsoft Office applications may fail to launch, and now issues with document printing are being reported. Over the past few days […]